Skip to main content

Bloomsbury Home

Description

Crossing Racial Borders: The Epistemic Empowerment of the Subaltern explores critically the racial, socioeconomic, historical, and political contemporary conditions of the lived experiences of the subaltern, the oppressed. Through the lens of the decolonial school of thought developed by Latin American thinkers and scholars, this text focuses on the identification and analysis of the subalterns’ praxis of living, thinking, knowing, and doing. The contributors delve into the subalterns’ agency at work and how their [inter]subjective/reflective actions, gestures, and thoughts are deep-seated in subverting and resisting the material and symbolic coloniality of power's exploitation, categorization, and oppression. Drawing from sociological, anthropological, literary, and historical approaches, a new set of ideas and rationalities uncovers and challenges the complicities of modernity/coloniality (power-pattern-matrix) through new narratives and discursive epistemic-frames of empowerment and agency.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Lenita Perrier and Luis Martínez Andrade

Part 1
Necropolitics and Race // Hunger, Violence, and Invisibility

Chapter 1: Necropolitics and Coloniality of Power in Latin America
Luis Martínez Andrade
Chapter 2: Decoloniality and Reading Carolina Maria de Jesus in Public School
Veruschka de Sales Azevedo
Chapter 3: Rhythms of the Margins: Subversive Decolonial Narratives and Practices
Catarina de Figueiredo Ramos
Chapter 4: Afro-Brazilian Perspectives and Decolonial Thought
Nádia Maria Cardoso da Silva

Part 2
Crossing Racial Borders // Whiteness, Fraud, and Silencing

Chapter 5: Black-White-Coloniality: Race in a Transmodern Decolonial Setting
Lenita Perrier
Chapter 6: Coloniality through Whiteness: Brazilian Academia and the Exclusion of Black Students' Rights
Sales Augusto dos Santos
Chapter 7: The Decolonial Poetics in Torto Arado
Janaína de Figueiredo
Chapter 8: Virgínia Leone Bicudo and Her Perspective of the “Outsider Within.” What She Saw that Donald Pierson Did Not

Product details

Published Jun 15 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 246
ISBN 9781666912647
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 228 x 160 mm
Series Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
ONLINE RESOURCES

Bloomsbury Collections

This book is available on Bloomsbury Collections where your library has access.

Related Titles

Environment: Staging